Monday, October 31st, 2011
Leading investigators, scientists and clinicians from America and Europe met at Christ's College, Cambridge in order to launch a novel initiative to revolutionize cancer treatment. Their aim is to transform the disease from terminal to manageable, chronic condition within the next decade...
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Saturday, October 29th, 2011
The current classification system for kidney complications in patients with lupus is too detailed, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The results should make it easier for physicians to classify and treat kidney problems in patients with the ...
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Sunday, August 28th, 2011
Current estimates of the impact of chemotherapy on women's reproductive health are too low, according to a University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) study. The researchers say their analysis of the age-specific, long-term effects of chemotherapy provides new insights that will help patients and clinicians make more informed decisions about ...
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Sunday, August 28th, 2011
A new study demonstrates how text mining of electronic health records can be used to create medical term profiles of patients, which can be used both to identify co-occurrence of diseases and to cluster patients into groups with highly similar clinical features. The study, carried out in Denmark by a ...
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Friday, August 26th, 2011
A study published on bmj.com today showed that a new scoring system can more accurately predict the remaining life expectancy of patients with advanced cancer in terms of "days", "weeks" or "months". This information is significant for clinicians to assist in finding appropriate care for terminally ill cancer patients ...
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